(1) April 30, 2014 my review of The Schism:
A great introduction to Pearseus Rise of the Prince
The Schism starts with the space ship UES Pearseus with a lot of celebrities on board. Under the influence of the voices in his head, First Mate Croix could not concentrate and disaster strikes which throws the space ship through space…and time. The ship falls apart and a lot of the people on board being killed. Some were lucky escaping with pods and crash landing on another close-by planet. First Mate Croix still under influence of the voices in his head, now has the ambition to become a Dictator. The Schism is a great introduction to Pearseus Rise of the Prince.

(2) May 8, 2014 My review of The Power of Six:
I highly recommend this set of six stories.
I love all 6 of this short Science Fiction Stories, by the bestselling author of “Pearseus Rise of the Prince”, and “The Schism” – Nicholas C. Rossis. My favorite story here is “A Fresh Start” – love is more important than gems- I also had a good chuckle at a certain part in this story, in my Minds’ Eye popped up a very funny picture- of the late Johann Sebastiaan Bach- that suddenly comes to life, lifts his eyebrow – then smirks, while huffing and puffing lifts his piano then wields it as if it’s a sword…

(3) August 19, 2014 my review of Pearseus, Rise of the Prince:
It moved me to tears! Almost from the beginning, it amazed me. The cruelty of Styx moved me to tears, as did the subsequent feelings of suspense, relief and shock as the story unfolded and the ending drew closer. This is a highly recommended book, that I couldn’t put down. I’m now looking forward to the next book in the series.

￼(4) July 2, 2015 My review of
Shoot the Devil in Issue #1 Nonlocal Science Fiction:
My favorite from the 10 short stores in Issue #1 of this Nonlocal Science Fiction, is Shoot the Devil by author Nicholas C. Rossis. I could felt the protagonist glee when he traveled back in time to kill a scum-bag. I would recommend that you buy all of the issues printed by Nonlocal Science Fiction! *Contemplating* Hmm, if I could travel back in time what would be the one thing that I would do that could change history forever…well with the horrific events in current South Africa, I would have kicked a certain politician till kingdom come, before he could be elected and in doing so it would have prevented that he would spend R246 million of the tax-payers money for his own financial gain…

(5) July 3, 2015 My review of Infinite Waters:
Lucid dreams become a very scary experience…
My favorite short story is the one with the twins that hated each other so much that they fought each other while having lucid/astral projection dreams…
In this dreams their thoughts about each other guided the outcome of this very scary experience. I would recommend this book to science fiction lovers & those who enjoy reading supernatural stories.
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Ellie Jordan’s job is to catch and remove unwanted ghosts. Part detective, part paranormal exterminator, Ellie operates out of Savannah, Georgia, the most haunted city in the United States.

When a family contacts her to deal with a disturbing presence in the old mansion they’ve recently purchased, Ellie first believes it to be a typical, by-the-book specter, a residual haunting by a restless spirit. Instead, she finds herself confronting an evil older and more powerful than she’d ever expected, rooted in the house’s long and sordid history of luxury, sin, and murder. The dangerous entity seems particularly interested in her clients’ ten-year-old daughter.

Soon her own life is in danger, and Ellie must find a way to exorcise the darkness of the house before it can kill her, her clients, or their frightened young child.

“A brilliantly addictive, insomnia-inducing story following Ellie Jordan, a ghost tracker, who works a hazardous job investigating hauntings. Read before bedtime at your own risk!” -Alexia Purdy, bestselling author of the Dark Faerie Tale and Reign of Blood series

“Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper is both really fun and really creepy. It’s Ghostbusters meets The Dresden Files.” -Daniel Arenson, bestselling author of the Song of Dragons and Moth series

About the Author
J. L. Bryan studied English literature at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, with a focus on the English Renaissance and the Romantic period. He also studied screenwriting at UCLA. He enjoys remixing elements of paranormal, supernatural, fantasy, horror, and science fiction into new kinds of stories.

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Say My Name is awesome. Billy is such a remarkable like-able character, although her motto is “don’t touch me or you will be sorry.” You will find out why she hates being touched. Bastian is the typical gorgeous bad-ass male, and he was instantly drawn to Billy. I felt every emotion of the characters, their anger, their hurt and loved it when Billy stood her ground against those overgrown bullies. I love how Adri described the dancing and the collecting of the tears at Demon Tears Inn, and the imaginative use of those tears. What a unique twist! I would have never guessed who Billy truly was… I’ve read the first 4 books in the Second Breath Chronicles and would recommend this series to all readers who love paranormal romance. I’ve also downloaded the 5th book in The Second Breath Chronicles ‘Fight or Flight’ and I am looking forward to reading it.

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Say my name delves into the world of Demolition – but only a little, as it is the world of Hades that really interferes with Billy Carter’s life.

What is SHE hiding, and how will that affect her brothers, her boss’ brother Bastian and his sister Dana?

How do you deal with being an Contact Empath, in a brutal world?

She is a petite girl – looking like Betty Boob – if all things are to be believed. Silent, mostly withdrawn, and looking for a new job as a Demolition Expert.

She does not like to be touched, for a very good reason. She fights in a pub called “Devil’s Tears Inn” for more than just her life.
Her name? Billy Carter,

He is her boss’ brother. A big, bulk of a man who loves blowing things up.

He has a little black book full of names – names of girls he use, to avoid his own feelings. He is a serious man who likes to carry his own weight.
His name? Bastian Goldwen.
Straight foward right? Maybe not.

Bastian and Billy belong together, that much is clear – but what about Asmodai? The Demon Prince of Lust who’s hankered after Billy from the day she was born? What is the story behind the three-headed dog – Cerberus – and his Mother?

This is a novella, tied in to the Second Breath Series, but a stand-alone read. It has all the elements of Paranormal, Fantasy Romance – without the heat but perhaps a few roller-coaster rides.

Expect the unexpected with this one – and treasure the expected, because the journey is nothing short of a fairytale.
Sex: No.
Expletives: Indicated with squiggles and suggested.
Humour: Plenty.
Drama: Some.
Fantasy: Absolutely.
Book 4 in the Second Breath Chronicles, though it is a stand alone paranormal romance with mythological aspects.

Annico van Vuuren presenting REAP THE DUST, her heart stirring story about King Solomon of the Bible – surely a must for every book-lover’s bookshelf?

One man – 1000 wives – a sensual orgy?!! This concept, on the other hand, must surely be in conflict with Solomon’s wisdom – the wisest man ever.

Also that anti-violence – 3000 years ago – was the mark of his 40 year reign; that he could succeed in turning a nomadic, pastoral people and glorifying them into a world empire.

Most of all: the positive message to mankind, generated by his example: As king and man he attained fame; success; riches – wisdom; but in his book it was but vanity.

What carried him forward was to covet – moment by harrowing moment – more than a materialistic advantage: reaching from dust to stars.

KING SOLOMON’s story came alive in the mind of ANNICO VAN VUUREN at the tender age of four; evolving with the passing years.

Annico believes this story to be the absolute truth.

It still proved an almost impossible task to climb into the mind of a man of such stature.

She practiced on other stories… Reaching the age of 70 she had to realize time was running out.
You are invited to accompany Annico on her journey into the Solomon’s soul. You will listen to many voices out of his time and in the epilogue to the voice of Annico as well.

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Sam told his mother, “It really doesn’t get cold. That’s just a myth, like dragons and unicorns.” But he soon learns the truth about winter… and dragons.

Sam and the Dragon – You’ll never see your furnace the same way again.

Sam and the Dragon was selected for the KART Foundation’s 2011 Kids Book List.

From the Author:
This is my first children’s story. The inspiration for it came from an incident that happened many years ago when our boys were little.

We lived in a mobile home and every time the furnace turned on it made a lot of noise.

Each time the boys would immediately stop what they were doing and ask “what’s that?” and at some point, my wife walked them down to the cabinet that hid the furnace and told them that a dragon lives in there and the noise they hear is just the dragon waking up and blowing warm air to heat the house.

From that time on, whenever the furnace turned on, the boys would say “the dragon’s awake” and continue playing. I wrote the story a few years later. (On my Commodore64. It was that long ago.)

After publishing my first novel, SEAMS16: A New Home, and while I was working on my second, SEAMS16: Arrival, I thought of that old story and asked my brother, Lanin, if he would be interested in illustrating it.

He agreed, so I dug the story out and looked it over. I’ve learned a lot about writing since then, so I gave the story an overhaul before passing it on to Lanin.

I publicly asked for help in naming the story and my niece’s daughters (age 3 & 5) suggested “Sam and the Dragon”.
Works for me.

About the Author:
Born and raised in West Mitten, USA (Grand Rapids, MI), Eric still lives in the area in a house he built, (literally), with the help of his wife, Therese, and two sons, Eric Jr. and Nicholas, (and various other friends and relatives).

The boys are grown and gone, although they both live in the area. Eric and Therese have managed to get past the empty nest syndrome and currently only share their home with their two dogs, Sable and Tucker, and a cat, Liza.

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The new bay supervisor comes with an exemplary record, but he can’t get along with anyone. An abduction where the victims are left unbound and unguarded, no perpetrators claim responsibility, and no demands are made. The discovery of a bomb with the only evidence incriminating the most unlikely of perpetrators. These confusing events and more blur the line between good and bad…right and wrong…friend and foe…
Join Charlie and Susan in their search for answers in SEAMS16: Friends and Foes

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Sink your claws into 832 page eBook Omnibus Collector’s Edition of the Best Selling Chronicles of Dragon series. All 10 books in the series are included in this one of a kind ultra-dragon adventure. This book is huge! Enjoy the gallery of incredible illustrations of all 10 covers plus the major characters. This book is a must read and must have for all dragon lovers worldwide!

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Welcome to the world of NALZAMBOR …

Nath is a special warrior. He is a man destined to be a dragon. In order to become a dragon, he must save the dragons.

For countless years Nath has been on a quest to become a dragon, but his meddling with the other races tends to get in the way. The way of men is not the way of Nath Dragon his father has warned him. Yet, Nath, unable to control his fascination of the world men, elves, dwarves and even the despised orcs, tends to get caught up in their affairs. To earn his scales, there is a high road he must follow.

With his close friend and ally, Brenwar the Dwarf, Nath, armed with a magic sword he calls Fang, travels to the Mountain of Doom, the Free City of Narnum and to Orcen Hold where nothing but trouble awaits.

Will Nath Dragon, hero of the realm and protector of dragon kind choose the right path or wind up on a dark one?

*****
This collector’s edition includes the following 10 books: The Hero, The Sword and the Dragons, Dragon Bones and Tombstones, Terror at the Temple, Clutch of the Cleric, Hunt for the Hero, Siege at the Settlements, Strife in the Sky, Fight and the Fury, War in the Winds and Finale.

A phone call changed his life. Joe is wheelchair bound after being hit by a car. He loves children and wants them to believe that Santa and the Christmas spirit is for real. Joe learns that he does not need to be perfect, that even as a disabled person he could make a huge difference in the life of a child who needs love. He realizes that no one is too useless to give/receive love…

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Join Joe as he discovers his life isn’t as empty and useless as he thought it had become.

When Charlie, the little girl with the big heart teams up with him, they discover the true magic of Christmas.

A peek inside:
Part of what I got, when I became a ‘Nicholas,’ is the ability to be with certain people. What they know about a child, we know. In turn, their ability to relate to children is magnified, so they can help them.

We can’t reach every child who needs it, because there are not nearly enough of us who can do the work. We can’t tell you how you’ll know, but you will know when a certain child needs extra ‘attention.’

When you touch them, to let them on your lap or say hello, they’ll feel the unconditional love that is the Spirit of Christmas.”

From the Author:
I wrote this book for the son of a friend I met in 2009.

In December of 2011, someone living in my apartment building, lamented that her grandchild “didn’t believe in Santa Claus.” The excuse was, “They’re all over the place. They can’t all be real.”

I thought of my friend’s son. He was two that year. I wanted him to continue to believe in Santa, but I didn’t know how to do that.

That night, Charlie came to visit me, just before I went to sleep. She started telling me the story of Joe, and why she, and later her children, “believe in Santa Claus.”

Over the next few months, she told me the story, with a little help from Joe. I hope that by the time you finish the book, you will “believe,” as well.

If you really love working with children, maybe you’ll have the chance to be a Santa Claus, like Joe did.

5 Star Review: March 19, 2015 by Pat Patterson:
Title: This REALLY needs to be a Hallmark Christmas movie!

￼If you are not going to use the link, but want to read the book, search for it with the title, not the author name. Reason: it’s listed as being by Wzlter Daniels. Now, frankly, I think Wzlter is a very nice name, and when it comes to brand differentiation, you can’t go wrong with a Z. But, YMMV.

Joe loves kids. He always has. He has none of his own, but he has a reputation of being the go-to guy for stories among his nieces and nephews.

He’s a nice guy, but circumstances haven’t been nice to him. Cars like to hit him, and he is now mostly confined to a wheelchair. So, when he gets a phone call asking him if he’d like to have some seasonal employment, his initial reaction is to say ‘Bye-Bye!’ and hang up the phone.

He doesn’t, of course, and you know who was on the phone, because the title of the book, right?

It was Santa, the REAL Santa, the current Santa, and he’s looking for someone to help spread Christmas around to children who need it.

What do they need at Christmas? Same thing you and I do. What they need is to be loved; to be reassured that love is real, and that love conquers all. It does, you know; and it might just take a crippled Santa to really be able to understand that.

Sure, there are perfect bicycles in the story, and reindeer blowing snot on rude children (always a favorite) but no amount of toys, either kid toys or grown-up toys, will ever be able to work the magic in the life of a child, or an adult, that love works.

Here’s a truth: there doesn’t have to be an actual Saint Nicholas coming down the chimney for the love part to work out. And the people who give and receive love don’t have to be in perfect physical health for it to mean something.

So, Joe gets to distribute some special Santa goodness. It’s not because he was sprinkled with fairy dust (although there is magic involved); it’s because of who he was, before he ever answered the phone.

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Devika Fernando shared this post on Facebook today: “Guess what I just typed? THE END! I finished writing my paranormal romance novel ‘Dancing With Fire’, sequel to ‘Playing With Fire’. As of now, the total word count is 111,927. Now how do I find the patience to let it rest a bit before I tackle revising and editing?!”

“Here’s a special ￼SneakPeekSunday￼‬ snippet from Dancing With fire (not from the final chapter, don’t even ask me! *lol*)”

“As a short explanation: Hekla is a volcano in iceland, having its own personality and thought voice in the book. In real life, people call it the ‘gateway to hell’, as my research has shown. Welcome fodder for my story…”

Beneath their feet, tectonic shifts were slip-sliding over and against each other, the ground preparing for change.

“I am not the devil,” the Hekla spoke. “I am not the real gateway to hell either. But I know a lot about the devil and hell. He lives in me, you know? A little of him, a little of his fire, is what makes me who I am.”

Felicia was still processing this with her mouth hanging open and the wheels in her mind whirring when the voice continued with hidden glee.

“He lives in you too. And in your fiery companion. Maybe he’s waiting for you? And if he is, will you keep him waiting?”

This time, both Felicia and Kyle had been turned into statues of stunned silence.

Lightning struck, feeling so close that its electric current made the hairs on their bodies stand up. A clap of thunder followed, echoed by a lower, more menacing rumbling from underground.

Felicia cringed, then hated herself for being such a wimp. And she was almost angry at the Hekla for riling her up like this. Telling her not to ask and ponder so much but offering questions and food for thought himself. Was he playing mind games with her? Surely he was too powerful to really care? Why would he want to figure her out?

“Because you are unique, little lady of fire. In all my centuries, I have met many like you, but nobody exactly like you.”

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This science-fiction adventure is filled with solid characters that are thrown into difficult situations.
It has unexpected twists and a fate they are fighting to avoid…
An Interesting book, with enough action to keep the reader intrigued with what was going to happen next.
The author succeed to keep the scenes/action/story focused which makes the story easy to follow.

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After the fall of Earth, the surviving humans colonized other worlds and formed the Hyperion Empire. At the Empire’s center: the planet Lintalla. The rest is comprised of human clans and alien civilizations.

Although the Empire has enjoyed peace for many years, the threat of war with the bear-like Tarin ‘Tal and other enemy tribes is never far away.

During a routine diplomatic visit, a courtship between the Empire and potential new members, something seems amiss.

In the midst of all the state dinners, planetary tours, and exhibition tournaments, James Ursidae—son of the legendary warrior and founder of the Emperor’s elite guard known as the Hammer—senses that tensions between some of the Imperial factions are approaching a boiling point.

An assassination attempt on James and his companions, including the Emperor’s daughter, confirms his worst fears.

As the Empire hovers on the brink of war, James assumes his birthright and ascends to the post his father once occupied, leading the Hammer Warriors into battle, but he is only beginning to discover the depth of the conspiracy and the destruction it will wreak, threatening to destroy his mother, his friends, the woman he loves, and the very foundations of the Empire.

About the Author:
Joshua Done was born in Long Beach California and grew up in the Snoqualmie Valley of Washington State. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale Michigan. During his last year of College, Joshua developed the world of the Hyperion Empire and wrote his first novel, the Exile Empire. When not working, studying, or writing Joshua is known to hang around local coffee shops and is a self-proclaimed connoisseur of caffeine and teas of all varieties.

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Meet Princess Columba of Illinowa. She’s a magician, a scholar, and is currently the heir to the throne…but she wants no part of it. Because she’s royalty, she’s had trouble meeting men, and she’s tired of dealing with people in search of a title rather than herself.

Into her life comes a mysterious cat. She rescues the cat, takes him into the palace, and starts having unusual dreams — dreams of a man who understands her, cares about her, and loves her. Not her title.
Unbeknownst to Columba, the cat is a shapeshifter. He, too, is royal, albeit from far away. And he’s the man of her dreams…that is, when he’s not in the form of a cat.

Then the dream-man shows up, and the cat disappears.

Columba must decide whether or not to believe in her dreams — and hope that somehow, the magical romance she’s found is here to stay.
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Nefertiti and her younger sister, Mutnodjmet, have been raised in a powerful family that has provided wives to the rulers of Egypt for centuries.

Ambitious, charismatic, and beautiful, Nefertiti is destined to marry Amunhotep, an unstable young pharaoh.

It is hoped by all that her strong personality will temper the young Amunhotep’s heretical desire to forsake Egypt’s ancient gods, overthrow the priests of Amun, and introduce a new sun god for all to worship.

From the moment of her arrival in Thebes, Nefertiti is beloved by the people. Her charisma is matched only by her husband’s perceived generosity: Amunhotep showers his subjects with lofty promises.

The love of the commoners will not be enough, however, if the royal couple is not able to conceive an heir, and as Nefertiti turns her attention to producing a son, she fails to see that the powerful priests, along with the military, are plotting against her husband’s rule.

The only person wise enough to recognize the shift in political winds—and brave enough to tell the queen—is her younger sister, Mutnodjmet.

Observant and contemplative, Mutnodjmet has never shared her sister’s desire for power. She yearns for a quiet existence away from family duty and the intrigues of court.

Her greatest hope is to share her life with the general who has won her heart.

But as Nefertiti learns of the precariousness of her reign, she declares that her sister must remain at court and marry for political gain, not love.

To achieve her independence, Mutnodjmet must defy her sister, the most powerful woman in Egypt—while also remaining loyal to the needs of her family.

Love, betrayal, political unrest, plague, and religious conflict—Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life in vivid detail.

Fast-paced and historically accurate, it is the dramatic story of two unforgettable women living through a remarkable period in history.

“There haven’t been two more fascinating or outrageous siblings since the Boleyn sisters…Nefertiti is obsessive reading.”
– Robin Maxwell, author of The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

“An engrossing page-turner, Nefertiti brings ancient Egypt to life as two royal sisters struggle to find fulfillment and happiness- one craving ultimate political power, the other desiring only to follow her heart. A strong debut novel of passion and intrigue, Nefertiti kept me up way too late!”
– India Edghill, author of Wisdom’s Daughter

“A provocative portrait of limitless power in an ancient land of limitless fascination.”
– Ki Longfellow, author of The Secret Magdalene

“Nefertiti is a fascinating window into the past, a heroic story with a very human heart. Compulsively readable!”
–Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Breath of Snow and Ashes

About the Author
MICHELLE MORAN has a degree in English literature. She lives in California with her husband and cat, Anubis.

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She won’t find peace until she finds redemption.
But it’ll take more than love; it’ll take two worlds, to merge into one.

BRIGHTON 1938
Laura and Christian enjoy a blissful summer, while Charles watches from a distance, waiting for the right time to intervene. This time, he’s prepared to do something truly vile as to leave nothing to chance. WWII breaks out, and Laura does her best to settle in a new life, having paid a terrible price. Will she find happiness at last, or will the past continue to haunt her?

CORFU 1988
Sofia arrives in Vassilaki broken hearted over Danny. Just as a new boy comes into her life, the strange dreams start anew. Now in Brighton, she meets Danny again, but he blows hot and cold. When she sees a female apparition on the West Pier, she finds out the locals call her ‘The Lady of the Pier’. Is this the woman in her dreams and why is Sofia the only one who can see her?

A Gift of Ghosts is a paranormal love story written in a fresh, lively style. It’s an easy read and light-hearted despite a plot that touches on drug overdose and suicide. – Fairy Hedgehog

This is a cool little world to inhabit. I liked how the characters were friendly and likeable and you just liked to hang out with them. – Speed Reading Book Nerd Reviews

I loved this book! So much so, I might read it again. There was so much going on and even a few surprises, especially for a ghost story, and I had a really hard time putting it down. – Beth’s Reviews and Promotions

This book is a damn fine read. I loved it from start to finish and can’t wait to read the sequel. – Laurie K, Stellar Four

I was talking out loud to the author near the end, warning her of dire consequences if she went in a certain direction … It’s a nice little feel-good fantasy. – Mean Fat Old Bat Reads.

If you are a fan of paranormal you will enjoy this fast paced, suspenseful story. The characters are believable and you will be hooked from the very first page to the last. I would recommend this book to everyone who loves paranormal. Treat yourself to a very good read. I am looking forward to reading the next book in this series – Gift of Thought. – Flamingcrystal

About the Author
Sarah Wynde graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in English, which she actually managed to put to use by becoming an editor. She’s worked on magazines, websites, and books, including ten years spent as a senior acquisitions editor with Pearson. Eventually, her love of writing pushed her into independent publishing. She likes to think of the stories she writes as unexpected fiction—bending, blending, and occasionally breaking genres.

I read this book on the author’s website, a while ago. The book is about a boy that lost his smile… I love the dog in this story, *pssst whisper* he reads Proust and even drives a car. The morale of this story is that everything (especially a smile) when shared is contagious and it would bring joy/love/hope to those who share! Kids of all ages would love this story with its beautiful illustrations.

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Award-Winning Finalist in the “Children’s Fiction” category of the 2015 International Book Awards!

“I woke up this morning and I had lost my smile and it wasn’t my fault and I looked everywhere and it was gone. Then I met a workman and a king and the best salesman in the world and a clown and no-one wanted to give me theirs. At school, I asked Miss to give me hers, but she gave us a pop quiz instead, and then no-one was smiling and…”

A little boy wakes up in the morning and realizes he has lost his smile. After spending the entire day trying to find it, he learns the truth behind smiles: the only real smiles are the shared ones.

Review
Children love handling a book and if they love it, will go to bed with it under their pillow. In my opinion ‘Runaway Smile’ is a masterpiece to be treasured for life. Most avid readers still have books from their childhood which they read over and over again. When I’m unhappy about something, I refer to one of these books. ‘Runaway Smile’ has joined the list. You have a gem in ‘Runaway Smile’.
– Juliet Aharoni, author

About the Author
Avid reader. Web developer. Architect by training, holder of a PhD in Digital Architecture from the University of Edinburgh. Now, author.

Nicholas loves to write. Except for Runaway Smile, he has also published the Amazon best-selling epic fantasy series, Pearseus, and The Power of Six, a collection of short sci-fi stories.

He lives in Athens, Greece, at the edge of a forest, with his wife, dog and two very silly cats, one of whom is always sitting on his lap, so please excuse any typos in his blog posts: typing with one hand can be hard. Mercifully, all his books are professionally edited!

If you think this is just another vampire werewolf story, brace yourself because you will be in for a big surprise, this story is unlike any other. Thank you for depriving me of my sleep Adri… I could not put this book down and had to read it right through the night, because I was too curious to find out what was going to happen next. The book is full of twists and turns and way better than the Twilight series. I would recommend this book to all readers who love fantasy/supernatural/folklore/suspense.

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Carmina Nightshade is a 22 year old human girl who discovers the truth about her family and clan – they are not human.

As life would have it, the voices she’s heard in her head since birth has a purpose far more sinister than just being annoying.

When Carmina meets the big, dark-haired Liam Moretti, she turns the entire immortal world upside down – breaking all the rules and changing history as they know it.

To love eternally, she has to die, to die she has to live and to live… she has to learn the difference between Myth and Truth – if there is any.

***A Stranger in the night.
I gaze up and notice the colors lashing out of an angry paintbrush over the horizon. The knot in my stomach is a vivid notification, reminding me of being as irritated as the enflamed and ginger tints marking the sky. From where I’m sitting, the towering volcano in the distance looks lonely yet proud. I marvel at the magnitude of nature rendering the likes of me insignificant. I’m just a small biological mass cowering at the foot of a fire goddess; nothing special.

The prickly patches of grass and barbed brushes under my naked legs recommend moving. I inspect the scrapes and welts around my hands and knees with renewed vigor.

By the time I distinguish the human shape from the other obscure and creeping shadows, it was too late. A sense of annoyed inconvenience forces my head to look up at the person blocking my view.

What I thought I’d see was a family member. What I see is two deep, gilded eyes set in the moon-pale skin topped with dark hair rivalling black lava. I feel every last nerve recoil into tiny prickly hairs, standing straight up. The view of the man in front of me is a complete opposite rendition to fire goddess I just venerated. He is an enormous portrait hauntingly hanging in mid-air. My mouth dries rapidly but the trio who live in my mind become rather loud and verbal:

“Run!” and “Hit it!” and “Stay calm dearie, for your safety.” As so many times before in my life, I ignore them altogether. ***

From the Author
Writing Hidden Carmina started off as a project inspired by my long-standing love for all things Vampire related. I finally caved in and read the entire Twilight series in one sitting. When done, I sat down and started typing, and didn’t stop until Carmina Nightshade’s story was told.

The challenge was finding out if the work was any good. Personally, it does not matter all that much, I just wanted to see if I could write more than poetry and short stories. As it turns out – I could!

Family and friends started shouting at me to send them more and eventually convinced me to publish. Not being English, I know the book has many mistakes in it – and eventually found someone willing to do line Editing for me.
Rosie Wilmott is a fantastic editor. She’s patient and explained to me what I do wrong and how to fix it in order to make the editing on book two easier.
While Rosie is working on the mistakes, I am making the e-book free of charge to download.

I hope to continue writing, and I hope that someone at least enjoys reading it. I am by no means a phenomenon but I am absolutely in love with words, writing and the people who take the time and effort to read !

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***A Stranger in the night.
I gaze up and notice the colors lashing out of an angry paintbrush over the horizon. The knot in my stomach is a vivid notification, reminding me of being as irritated as the enflamed and ginger tints marking the sky. From where I’m sitting, the towering volcano in the distance looks lonely yet proud. I marvel at the magnitude of nature rendering the likes of me insignificant. I’m just a small biological mass cowering at the foot of a fire goddess; nothing special. The prickly patches of grass and barbed brushes under my naked legs recommend moving. I inspect the scrapes and welts around my hands and knees with renewed vigor.

By the time I distinguish the human shape from the other obscure and creeping shadows, it was too late. A sense of annoyed inconvenience forces my head to look up at the person blocking my view. What I thought I’d see was a family member. What I see is two deep, gilded eyes set in the moon-pale skin topped with dark hair rivalling black lava. I feel every last nerve recoil into tiny prickly hairs, standing straight up. The view of the man in front of me is a complete opposite rendition to fire goddess I just venerated. He is an enormous portrait hauntingly hanging in mid-air. My mouth dries rapidly but the trio who live in my mind become rather loud and verbal:

“Run!” and “Hit it!” and “Stay calm dearie, for your safety.” As so many times before in my life, I ignore them altogether. ***

From the Back Cover
Carmina Nightshade is a 22 year old human girl who discovers the truth about her family and clan – they are not human.
To love eternally, she has to die, to die she has to live and to live… she has to learn the difference between Myth and Truth – if there is any. LessAs life would have it, the voices she’s heard in her head since birth has a purpose far more sinister than just being annoying. When Carmina meets the big, dark-haired Liam Moretti, she turns the entire immortal world upside down – breaking all the rules and changing history as as they know it.

This is not what you expect from a love story – it is EXACTLY what you expect from a love story, until you reach the darker side – where the reality clash with mythology. Where do you draw the line and how much is possible to endure?

About the Author
Having written website content, newsletters, blogs, forum posts and managed large communities online – Adri Sinclair knows how to be social and enjoy the interactive side of being a netizen. She is 43 years old in February 2015, and when asked about her age and her late start as an writer, she smiled cheekily and said: “Age? I’m not going to tell you it is just a number, but I am going to tell you it is a summery of a life – and we all know not all summaries tells the whole story.”
Adri is Afrikaans, lived in South Africa for the majority of her life. She is one of four, the eldest and the only girl. Asked about how she managed, she stuck her tongue out and shook her head, stomping her feet and said: “Jackie Chan, he kept me alive.”

Review by Flamingcrystal:
The poor boy suffered brutal physical and emotional abuse!
I’ve purchased the Afrikaans version of this book too. I was shocked at the suffering this boy had to endure through his brutal, drugs and alcoholic sex-crazed father, and the story moved me to tears. If I have to meet this horrible father I shall kick him so damn hard ~ that he lands on his hands and feet, buttocks in the air, face down into cowdung ~ straight into Egypt!

Product Description on Amazon:
Behind Closed Doors is a book about unresolved grief, sexual and drug abuse and a look at the seedy world of a psychotic parent.

Exploring a darker side of sexual child abuse and the struggle of the child to cope with this, the book is a must read for each and every one of us.

Being sexually abused by both family members and his father, Johan is taken into the world of drugs, sex and alcohol by his father.

Forcing Johan to have sex with other men his father cruelly dominates his whole life.

Scared to death and scarred for life Johan has to make the best of it in order to survive. He becomes a loner and creates his own imaginary world of heroes and culprits.

He has trust issues leading him to live like a hermit since his childhood.

For the rest of his life he has commitment and responsibility issues.

He has to learn to cope with this as an adult and survival is a key issue to Johan.

Writing this book helped him to heal and his ideal is to reach other going through the same in order to let them know that they are not alone!

Praise received for Agter Geslote Deure:

This book has grabbed me deeply with the open honesty and soul baring of the author. It took 35 years to fight against it all. Where you find yourself is not a joke. Even against the people that are supposed to love and guard you. How does a person heal? This is one of the questions I ask myself when I see the pain that this child has to cope with. This book grabs the deepest parts of being human and in the 35 years that has gone, where was the people in the system? Where are the adults and professional people … ?

About the Author:
Johan Botha is the Author of Agter Geslote Deure and is in the process of completing various other fiction titles.

Johan has been writing since the age of 16 but only recently started re-editing and submitting his work.

He is in the process of completing various other fiction titles.

Creative writing is a passion with Johan and he has gone the extent of giving up everything else to follow a lifelong dream.

He will be giving lectures at schools and venues to make other aware of sexual and drug abuse.

Johan grew up in Johannesburg and now lives on the East Rand. His influences are Wilbur Smith, Dean Koontz and Stephen King.

In 1676, an unlikely pair—a young Puritan widow and an English spy—journeys across a land where greed and treachery abound.

Prudence Cotton has recently lost her husband and is desperate to find her daughter, captured by the Nipmuk tribe during King Philip’s war.

She’s convinced her daughter is alive but cannot track her into the wilderness alone.

Help arrives in the form of James Bailey, an agent of the crown sent to Boston to investigate the murder of Prudence’s husband and to covertly cause a disturbance that would give the king just cause to install royal governors. After his partner is murdered, James needs help too.

He strikes a deal with Prudence, and together they traverse the forbidding New England landscape looking for clues.

What they confront in the wilderness—and what they discover about each other—could forever change their allegiances and alter their destinies.

About the Author

Michael Wallace was born in California and raised in a small religious community in Utah, eventually heading east to live in Rhode Island and Vermont. In addition to working as a literary agent and innkeeper, he previously worked as a software engineer for a Department of Defense contractor, programming simulators for nuclear submarines.

He is the author of more than twenty novels, including the Wall Street Journal best selling series The Righteous, set in a polygamist enclave in the desert

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One man loses everything to magic–and will do anything to prevent it from taking over his world.
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Magic has never been a part of Reandn’s life. Almost gone from Keland when he was born, there is no trace of it left by the time he patrols the Keep lands as an elite King’s Wolf.
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Magic has never been a part of Reandn’s life. Until the people under his care start dying. Until the threat extends to his family-and then turns on him.

Someone, somewhere, is trying to draw magic back into Keland, and they don’t care what-or who-is destroyed in the process.

But Reandn does.
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“Mystery, suspense, and loyalty fill out the plot, but primarily this novel focuses on the dangers of obsession. it also deals hauntingly with loss: of loved ones, of home and status, of entire ways of life….
It will keep you guessing right to the end, and there are no simple solutions to the complex problems presented.”
–Hypatia’s Hoard

About the Author:
Doranna Durgin is the author of seven fantasy novels the first of which, Dun Lady’s Jess, received the 1995 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award for the best first novel in the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres.

Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart.

Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever.

Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined—animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes.

But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.

An Excisioner—a practitioner of dark, flesh magic—invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest.

To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart—and reveal the very soul of the man.

Short-Listed for the 2015 ALA Fantasy Reading List

Review From School Library Journal:
Gr 10 Up—In early 20th century England, 19-year-old Ceony Twill graduates with distinction from the Praff School for the Magically Inclined and must now commit to a lifetime bond with one element. Although bespelling metal is Ceony’s choice, she is, much to her dismay, required to bond to paper owing to a shortage of paper magicians. She reluctantly travels to the cottage of magician Emery Thane, to whom she will apprentice. Although she’s initially scornful of the paper element, Thane wins over his prickly apprentice with inventive and delightful paper creations including a lifelike paper dog that becomes Ceony’s beloved companion.
The story swiftly moves to deadly serious, as Lira, an Excisioner who practices dark magic on human flesh, arrives intending to rip out and steal Thane’s heart. (Lira, coincidentally, is Thane’s ex-wife.)

About the Author:
Born in Salt Lake City, Charlie N. Holmberg was raised a Trekkie alongside three sisters who also have boy names. In addition to writing fantasy novels, she is also a freelance editor. She graduated from BYU, plays the ukulele, owns too many pairs of glasses, and hopes to one day own a dog. The Paper Magician is her debut novel and the first in a whimsical series exploring a world of magicians who animate manmade materials. She currently lives with her family in Utah.

Product Description on Amazon:
Book 2 in the Dante’s Circle Series – A Full Length Novel

Humans aren’t as alone as they choose to believe. Every human possesses a trait of supernatural that lays dormant within their genetic make-up.

Centuries of diluting and breeding have allowed humans to think they are alone and untouched by magic.

But what happens when something changes?

Ambrose Griffin is older than most, if not all, civilizations. As each year passes, he submerges himself into his training, only relaxing around his protégé and friend, Shade. After losing his wife and children in the last Angelic Wars, he guards his heart and has no desire to share it with another.

Bookkeeper and romance novel enthusiast, Jamie Bennett dreams of being swept off her feet by a white knight. However, her life is no romance book. Since meeting Ambrose–a sexy, delicious angel–she’s been twisted inside out and doesn’t know why. Things are happening that she can’t control and now her life is in danger.

Balin Drake is stuck in hell, literally. His life of refusing to take souls, even though it’s part of his demon nature, has caught up with him. He’s dying and now must search for his true half, but even a mating may not save him. When he meets the two people who could fill that part, he’ll need to fight for something he hasn’t felt in over a century–hope.

Warning: Contains a rigid angel who needs a certain sexy woman to help him unwind, a book keeper who finds herself the creamy center of the best cookie ever, and a demon who has a certain taste for pressing them both against walls.

From the Author
Dante’s Circle Series Reading Order
Book 1: Dust of My Wings
Book 2: Her Warriors’ Three Wishes
Book 3: An Unlucky Moon
The Dante’s Circle Box Set (Contains Books 1-3)
Book 3.5: His Choice
Book 4: Tangled Innocence
Book 5: Fierce Enchantment
Book 6: An Immortal’s Song (Coming Soon)
Book 7: Prowled Darkness (Coming Soon)

Other Paranormal Romances from Carrie Ann Ryan
Redwood Pack Series Reading Order
Includes Novellas and the Spin off Series, The Talon Pack
Book 1: An Alpha’s Path
Book 2: A Taste for a Mate
Book 3: Trinity Bound
Book 3.5: A Night Away
Book 4: Enforcer’s Redemption
Book 4.5: Blurred Expectations
Book 4.7: Forgiveness
Book 5: Shattered Emotions
Book 6: Hidden Destiny
Book 6.5: A Beta’s Haven
Book 7: Fighting Fate
Book 7.5: Loving the Omega
Book 7.7: The Hunted Heart
Book 8: Wicked Wolf
Book 9: Tattered Loyalties
Book 10: An Alpha’s Choice (Coming Aug 18th, 2015)

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Dejavu starts with the adventures of Angela, a woman that discovers that she has lived before, as Ishtar from Egypt. She astral travels to Egypt to discover that her powers could open the entrance to a pyramid.

She also finds Miysis, her lover and soulmate from her previous life.

David, a friend of hers with photographic memory, reads the famous Book of the Dead and wants to use it for financial gain.

Vampire-like monsters try to suck the book’s knowledge through his veins, but Miysis rescues him and Angela and heals David’s wounds, also clouding his memory.

David returns to Egypt to steal the Book of the Dead.

Miysis was given the choice to either reincarnate or acquire a power. He chose to attain the power of healing.

Would Anubis finally gave him the chance to reincarnate?

In Destiny we meet Ambrose Linard.

His poor parents struggled for years to have a child. An old lady with magical powers finally allowed their wish to have a baby to come true.

We also meet Angela’s reincarnation, Beryl. When Beryl’s mother was pregnant with her, she dreamed about a specific jewellery box and bought this and a key at an antique shop.

Anchen, unknowingly, found the key to the underworld that was around Angela’s neck, in this antique shop, although the scarab head of the key was empty and the stone inside gone.

Beryl was born with the philosopher’s stone clutched into her left hand. The stone fit perfectly inside the scarab head of the key to the underworld.

When Beryl grew up, her husband pushed her over the edge of the mountain. She lost her baby and the use of her legs.

She turned to Ambrose for help; an orthopedist with great healing powers. He lets her regain the use of her legs, and she discovers in him her soulmate, Miysis, from her previous life.

Beryl placed the philosopher’s stone in his hands and the stone reflected his past lives, allowing him to recognize her as Angela and Ishtar.

Beryl’s ex husband dressed as a Grinch tries to kill Beryl, but the bullet hits Ambrose.

Ambrose is seriously wounded, and unconscious. While unconscious, Hermes, the carrier of souls to the under world, grabs Ambrose and drags him to the magical tree that guards the river to the underworld.

Hermes pushed Ambrose inside the boat of a winged man. The winged man took Ambrose across the river Styx, also called the River of Forgetfulness, which is full of ugly beast-like creatures.

The water from this river lets the souls forget about their past…and within 3 minutes they are reborn without any knowledge of a prior life.

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Destiny – Copyright 2014. Flamingcrystal
In a small Greek village called Panteleimonas, about 3 kilometer from a castle that looks out over the ocean, a small boy is born.

He has pitch black hair and violet eyes and his parents name him Ambrose Ciro.

They struggled for 8 long years to have a child, until one fateful day, having traveled to the ocean with their old, worn-down cart (pulled along by a pair of equally downtrodden horses), intent on enjoying a day by the sea, they came upon a frail old woman.

Klementos and Aretha had a hard life and were very poor. Klementos worked for a miserly duke who paid his servants a pittance.

As the harvest season had ended and grapes that were to be used for wine had been crushed, Klementos had a precious few days to himself (for the duke did not care to pay when there was no work to be done) and decided to take Aretha for a day by the sea.

The beach was deserted and quiet, the sea was a bright aqua-blue color and calm.

There didn’t seem to be anybody in sight, when they suddenly heard a piercing scream; a call for help.

Far out to sea they could see a tiny old woman thrashing between the waves. It was clear that she wasn’t a very good swimmer and that she would drown without help, so Klementos and Aretha both ran to the water and swam out to save her from such a fate.

When they got to her she desperately flung her arms around them both and they brought her to the safety of the shore.

When they were clear of the water Klementos picked the old woman up and carried her to the shade of a nearby tree.

Once there they could see that she had strange, silver colored eyes and as she took their hands in hers they felt an electric shock pass through them.

In a clear, pure voice, a voice that did not belong in such a tiny, frail body, she said: “My name is Circe.”

Circe wore a silver chain around her neck with an onyx amulet in the shape of a beetle.

She noticed Aretha looking at it intently, and she told them that in Egypt the beetle symbolized the triumph over suffering, the cycle of life, as well as rebirth after death.

With a smile she told them that their greatest wish – that of having a child – would soon be granted. But for this to come to pass they had to listen intently and follow her advice to the letter.

Aretha then asked the old woman if she were perhaps a witch, in reply to which the old woman asked, with some amusement, whether she looked like a typical witch.

Aretha laughed and replied: “No, of course not! If you were a typical witch you would have a nose that stuck out past your chin with a great big wart on it. Your belly would hang past your knees and you would have toenails long enough for a farmer to plough his lands with!”

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This book should be made into a movie! The combination of sci-fi, and paranormal make this a very refreshing story.

Sam is a gifted girl with the super power of mind reading, a member of Rent-A-Kid, an organization that takes gifted children away from their parents and using these children’s super powers for their own financial gain.

The children believe that they would leave the organization when they turn 18…

I am looking forward to reading the Forbidden Fire and Forbidden Life.

Product Description on Amazon:
From USA Today bestselling author Karpov Kinrade comes an award-winning series full of romance and page-turning suspense.

She reads minds. He controls minds. Together, they might get out alive.

I’ve seen into the minds of killers and have crawled into the darkest mental corners of humanity, but even I wasn’t prepared for this.

I thought that when I turned 18 I would be released from my secret school of paranormal spies and free to follow my dreams and make my own life. That’s what we all thought. Until I met Drake.

Everything changed when I linked minds with the blond-haired boy strapped to that gurney. In my wildest dreams I couldn’t have imagined the dangerous truth behind my life.
And now time is running out. We must work together to save ourselves and everyone we love. Before it’s too late.

Winner of 2011 Forward National Literature Award

From the Author
This series was based on a dream I had of a teenage girl named Sam who could read minds and was rented out by an organization called Rent-A-Kid. I thought it would be a short story, so I penned it quickly before I planned on launching The Reluctant Familiar and The Chronicles of Corinne (Death by Destiny, Myths of Magic and Paths to Power). Boy was I wrong.What started as a short story, ended as an entire trilogy. Not only that, but come 2013 I have two more potential trilogies to write based on the Forbidden world.

This series explores the value of a human life and how we often see each other as tools to be used.

There are ethical questions raised as Sam and Drake struggle to understand their powers and each other.

It’s also a love story, albeit unconventional. What is it about someone that causes us to follow in love with them? Do we have to be physically present with someone to know it’s love? Sam and Drake explore the boundaries of love, loss, pain and morality in this series.

These are fast-paced books that are part paranormal/sci-fi, part thriller and part romance. I look forward to hearing what you think about each book as you work your way through the series.

I’m especially excited to offer this omnibus edition that gives you all three books in one at a great discount, plus gives you extra surprise content.

Thank you so much for taking an interested in the Forbidden world that has commanded my time and attention for so long. May you root for Sam, Drake, Luke, Lucy and their friends as much as I did while writing them.

About the Author
Kinrade was born with ink in her veins and magic in her heart and is the female half of the husband and wife writing duo of bestselling, award-winning authors Kimberly Kinrade and Dmytry Karpov published as Karpov Kinrade.

They live with their three little girls who think they’re ninja princesses with super powers and who are also showing a propensity for telling tall tales and using the written word to weave stories of wonder and magic.

The story is about the 18 year old Arianna Rose, who lives in a run down trailer with her mother. Her mother is an alcoholic who picked up strangers at bars.

Arianna met Luke and his sister Stephanie at her new school.

Arianna has telekinetic and other powers that she was unaware of. She moved the chair out from under a snobbish girl in class, just by willing the chair to move.

When Arianna fell with her bike, totaling it, and her clothes were in shreds, there were no signs of any injuries on her.

At a club when she and Stephanie sneaked outside for a smoke, they encountered 2 bad guys who intended to rape them. Arianna used her powers to save them from such a fate.

Arianna didn’t know that she was a witch, nor did she know that she has any powers. A mad priest, believing that God is giving him instructions to kill witches, is on Sola (Arianna’s) trail…

I would love to read the sequel, Arianna Rose: The Awakening (Part 2).

Product Description on Amazon:
Moving from place to place is nothing new to Arianna Rose. Always finding herself on the wrong side of the tracks wherever she goes, she’s used to being an outcast, used to not fitting in.

But nothing prepares her for what happens when she and her mother move to Herald Falls. Changes occur. Violence erupts.

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​​For four thousand years, creatus elders have insisted that the creatus population concealed themselves from human beings because humans had hunted the creatus almost to extinction…

But one woman’s research reveals that when creatus first arrived on this planet, humans didn’t fear the alien beings that looked so much like the human race. That is, until the creatus started to breed with humans, creating a ferocious killer feared by humans and creatus alike. A creature so fierce that its legacy of death and destruction has fed nightmares for millennia.

I have Anika Burgess and Vittoria Traverso of Atlas Obscura to thank for the beautiful images you can enjoy below and for the fascinating tale of the Luneborch manuscript; a long-lost 15-century prayer book that had been missing for some 40 years.

The Luneborch Manuscript

One day in 2012, the rare books assistant at the George Peabody Library at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, opened a package that had been delivered to the library’s mailbox. Inside was a long-lost 15th-century illuminated prayer book.

A page from the Luneborch Prayer Book.

The manuscript is one of the rare examples of vernacular spirituality—meaning it was for personal use, not in a church—from early Renaissance Germany. Known as the Prayer Book of Hans Luneborch, it had been commissioned in 1492. The book had…

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Are you looking for an impressive image to add to your blog? All you have to do is Google for it and it appears, as if by magic, on your screen—even if it’s an image taken from a centuries-old book. Spare a thought, however, for the poor people who have been tasked with putting it online in the first place.

Digitizing old books in their collections is a routine part of the work undertaken by archives and libraries. This both preserves the books and makes their content more accessible to the public. But what happens when you need to scan one that’s nearly six feet tall?

The Klencke Atlas. Photo: THE BRITISH LIBRARY/PUBLIC DOMAIN.

The Klencke Atlas

At five feet, ten inches tall, and seven feet, seven inches wide when open, the Klencke Atlas is a massive collection of 41 maps. It was made as a gift to King Charles II by

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